My Library

Amohg the lodges for occult study preliminary to initiation* formed by the Adepts of the good Law was one in a certain part»of America which was then tributary to one of the'great Atlantean monarchs—"the Divine Rulers of the Golden Gate ” ; and though it has passed through many atid strange vicissitudes, though ft has had to move its headquarters from country to country as each ■in turn was invaded by the jarring elements of a later civilization, that lodge still exists even at the present day, observing still the same old-world ritual— even teaching as a sacred and*hidden language the same Atlantean tongue which was used at its foundation so many thousands of years ago. •
It still remains what it was from the first—a lodge of occultists of pure and philanthropic aims, which can lead those students whom it finds worthy no inconsiderable distance on the road to knowledge, and confers such psychic powers as are in its giftonly after the nfbst searching tests as to the fitness of the candidate. Its teachers do not stand upon the Adept level, yet hundreds have learnt through it how to set their feet upon the Path which has led them to Adeptship in later lives; and though it is not directly a part of the Brotherhood of the